Timeline of Tallest Buildings
There have been several buildings in Miami that have served as the tallest building in the city. While the 5-story Burdine's Department Store was the first high-rise building in the city, the Freedom Tower is generally regarded as Miami's first skyscraper. Not included in this list is the Coral Gables Biltmore Hotel located in nearby Coral Gables, Florida, which is located just outside of Miami and would have qualified as the tallest building from 1926 to 1928 standing 315 feet (96 m). If the New World Tower, constructed in 1965 at 357 feet (109 m) had been four feet higher, it would have surpassed the Dade County Courthouse and been the tallest building until 1972 when One Biscayne Tower was completed. From 2003 to 2008, the Manhattanization of the city led to a huge amount of new development. Several buildings that were under construction, approved, or proposed could have earned the title of tallest building in the city upon completion. However, other than the Four Seasons Hotel (2003), none of them made it before the market crashed in 2007.
| Name | Image | Street address | Year(s) as tallest | Height |
Floors | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burdine's Department Store | South Miami Avenue and SW 1st Street | 1912–1917 | N/A | 6 | Now Macy's | |
| Ralston Building | 40 NE 1st Avenue | 1917 | 88 / 27 | 8 | ||
| McAllister Hotel | 50 Biscayne Boulevard | 1917–1925 | 120 / 37 | 10 | This building was destroyed in 1988 and is now the location of 50 Biscayne. | |
| Freedom Tower | 600 Biscayne Boulevard | 1925–1928 | 256 / 78 | 17 | ||
| Dade County Courthouse | 75 West Flagler Street | 1928–1972 | 360 / 110 | 28 | ||
| One Biscayne Tower | 2 South Biscayne Boulevard | 1972–1984 | 492 / 150 | 39 | ||
| Southeast Financial Center | 200 South Biscayne Boulevard | 1984–2003 | 764 / 233 | 55 | ||
| Four Seasons Hotel Miami | 1441 Brickell Avenue | 2003–present | 787 / 240 | 64 | Also the tallest building in Florida 2003–present |
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